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Re: posix_spawn and vfork

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 08:59:17 -0700
Subject: Re: posix_spawn and vfork
References: <87muk5vyl8.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> <1d60567d-ae5d-8511-2608-9f6f3ac2898f@linaro.org> <87woj6oaer.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>

Florian Weimer wrote:

doing this is worthwhile because
it increases test coverage for our vfork implementation.  I think we
need to provide a working vfork.

Yes; regardless of whether we use vfork to implement posix_spawn, too manyprograms rely on vfork to withdraw it any time in the foreseeable future.

References:
- posix_spawn and vfork
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: posix_spawn and vfork
  - From: Adhemerval Zanella
- Re: posix_spawn and vfork
  - From: Florian Weimer

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